'SandBox Nanny' has to say how nice it is to have Janet Urquhart's reporting on Citizen Center and Marilyn Marks updates.
Balance, facts and details. What a novel approach. A thank you goes out to Urquhart from bringing us the news rather than opinion.
Janet Urquhart:
"ASPEN — Legislation that would regulate the inspection of ballots through an open-records request — an issue that first came to a head in Aspen — was introduced in the Colorado Statehouse last week.
The bill was spawned in large part by Aspen election activist Marilyn Marks' requests to view ballots or other election-related data in counties around the state, including Jefferson County, where a resulting District Court hearing is scheduled Thursday and Friday. Pitkin County elections manager Dwight Shellman III has been subpoenaed as a potential witness for Marks.
Public access to ballots and whether ballots can be traced back to the voters who cast them are issues that have snowballed out of Marks' request to view ballot images from the city of Aspen's 2009 election, in which she lost the race for mayor. Marks filed suit after her request was denied and prevailed at the Appellate Court level. The city has appealed for review of the case by the Colorado Supreme Court.
Subsequently, Marks has become involved in litigation with several counties and in a federal lawsuit that challenges election practices in six Colorado counties..." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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